Game Boy Oddities – The PediSedate

Believe it or not, the Game Boy is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and to commemorate the occasion, Technologizer has put together a list of some of the weirdest accessories, variations and tributes to the most popular handheld gaming device of all time. But I’m pretty sure the PediSedate takes the birthday cake. It was designed to distract kids in a doctor’s or dentist’s office while they were being sedated with nitrous oxide. Now I’m pretty sure being asked to wear a headset like that wouldn’t make my visit to the dentist any more enjoyable, but I have to admit, if you stuck a copy of Link’s Awakening in my hands, you could gas me with anything you wanted.

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